Speaking of this, Jian Yong was speechless and said: "Those things in the Ministry of Revenue are all from the old calendar at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In more than a hundred years, the Ministry of Revenue has never actually counted the East and West Second Road in Guangnan. How many hectares of land have been cultivated, let alone how many paddy fields, dry fields, and sugarcane fields there are."
"The current taxes levied on Guangnan East and West Second Road are still based on the standards of the pre-Tang Dynasty. Unless the land is re-measured, it will always be a mystery how many hectares of cultivated land there are on Guangnan West Road. If the Ministry of Household Affairs does not take the initiative to investigate, Guilin The county prince's palace is not a fool, will it take the initiative to report it? Therefore, the number Yong Gang mentioned can only be said to be an estimate, and it is still the lowest kind."
"I'm afraid no one but themselves knows how much revenue the Guilin County Prince gets from the sugarcane fields, orchards, flood and drought fields in Guangdong and Guangxi every year. The Ministry of Household Affairs doesn't know, and the Guangnan East-West Road Transportation Department is probably in a mess. . When Yong was in the capital, he met the Deputy Envoy of Guangnan West Road and asked him how the amount of food and grain paid by the Guilin County Prince's Office every year came from."
"But that guy told me that how much food the Guilin County Prince's Mansion paid each year was determined according to the founding regulations. And that transfer envoy dared to go to the Guilin County Prince's Mansion to check the accounts? My lord, how much wealth did the Guilin County Prince's Mansion have at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China? How many are there now after more than a hundred years? According to the customization at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, wouldn't it be equivalent to confiscation?"
"Originally, the imperial court had two divisions, the Dutong Army and the Duzhi Division, in the Guilin County Prince's Mansion. The Duzhi Division was used to control the Guilin County Prince's Mansion, and the actual annual income was in order to customize the amount of money and food to be turned over. The Tongjun Division was for defense. When Annan and Dali invade Guangnan West Road, they will be set up as deputy border envoys."
"In wartime, he held the royal seal and cooperated with the King of Guilin to command the guards on Qianzhong and Guangnan West Road, as well as the two border troops in battle, but he did not command the army on weekdays. These two envoys have always been officials appointed by the court. . But when Emperor Gaozong abolished the originally appointed queen and crown prince and changed his policy to make the later Emperor Xuanzong the crown prince, 70% of the officials in the Manchu Dynasty opposed it. Only the then King of Guilin in Beijing supported it. "
"If it weren't for the Guilin Prince who was firmly opposed by all the officials in the court, especially the three prime ministers in the court, as well as the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the remaining founding nobles would also try their best to protect Mingzhe by keeping silent. Support, even with the strength of Emperor Gaozong, Emperor Xuanzong almost missed the throne of crown prince."
"When Emperor Gaozong was seriously ill, the Guilin prince galloped 800 miles to Beijing as quickly as possible. He was ordered to take charge of six of the eight imperial armies, in order to intimidate the kings who were eyeing him in Beijing at that time, and Those important ministers in the court ensured that Emperor Xuanzong could successfully inherit the throne after the death of Emperor Gaozong."
"After Xuanzong's throne was firmly established, in order to thank the Guilin County Prince for his support, not only the original Guilin County Prince's Mansion and the fields belonging to it were permanently exempted from taxes, but also the officials set up by the imperial court in the Guilin County Prince's Mansion at the founding of the People's Republic were modified. Although The Tongjun Division was still appointed by the imperial court, but the Duzhi Division was changed to be appointed by the Guilin County Prince."
"Furthermore, the official positions such as Chang Shi and Sima originally appointed by the imperial court were revoked, which means that all the officials who were originally used to monitor the Guilin County Prince's Mansion were removed. It was also clearly stated that no matter how much Guilin County Prince's Mansion was on Guangnan West Road, it would be reclaimed The land will never be taxed. The sixth daughter of the Guilin County Prince at the time was also registered as the imperial concubine, and the Guilin County Prince's Palace was allowed to form a Guilin Guard of 3,000 people."
"So since the beginning of the Xuanzong Dynasty, the imperial court has basically lost its control over the Guilin County Prince's Palace. Even the pacifier of Guangnan West Road and the Guilin Prefecture, if the Guilin County Prince's Palace does not agree, the court cannot smoothly appoint them. Now the Guilin County Prince's Palace and the Guilin County Prince's Palace Compared with those vassal states, the only difference is that they have no military power except the Guilin Guards."
"As for the rest of the roads, 60% of the tea farms on Fujian Road are controlled by the Guilin County Prince's Mansion, especially the origin of the most expensive Tieguanyin tea, which is in their hands. Even for the rest of the tea farms, the annual tea sales are also controlled. In their hands. In addition to the tea farm, there is also the Longquan kiln owned by the Guilin County Prince's Palace on Fujian Road. The celadon produced is worth thousands of gold in the East and West."
"The two Zhejiang East and West Roads and the Jiangnan East and West Roads have been important places of wealth since the Tang Dynasty. In this dynasty, the control was even stricter, and clans were strictly prohibited from occupying land there. This situation is slightly better. But almost all famous tea production areas , but they are all controlled by the Guilin County Prince’s Palace. The prince should already know about the so-called frightening fragrance.”
"However, although the Guilin County Prince's Palace does not occupy a large amount of land in these places except for tea gardens, there are Deqing Kiln and Hang Kiln in Zhejiang Province, and Jing Kiln on Jiangnan West Road, which produces black porcelain, celadon, and white porcelain. There is also blue and white porcelain, which is not only very popular in the East and West, but also accounts for half of the country even in this dynasty."
"In addition to a few official kilns from the Ministry of Industry, the kilns in the north of the Yangtze River, as well as the private kilns in Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, and Hebei, have been squeezed out of the kilns and it is extremely difficult to survive. The porcelain market in the south of the Yangtze River has always been controlled by the Guilin County Prince, and the porcelain in the north of the Yangtze River has become extremely difficult to survive. The porcelain merchants have no way to get involved. And because the blue and white porcelain they produce is extremely popular, Jiangbei is also controlled by more than 50% of it."
"In addition, the power of foreign trade is in the hands of the Guilin County Prince, and their porcelain cannot be sold overseas at all. Although some are smuggled from the Shandong Road along the coast to Northern Liao, Japan, and Korea, the quantity and scale are simply not enough. It is incomparable to the Guilin County Prince’s two trading ports in Guangzhou and Quanzhou.”
"Even the Cizhou kilns that were so famous during the pre-Tang Dynasty can now only fire some coarse porcelain used by ordinary people to make a living. Although our dynasty defeated the Tubo people, it has never been able to restore the Western Region. The entire Western Region is now Under the control of the Uighur Khanate, the land Silk Road has never been opened. All the porcelain from the kilns in Jiangbei cannot be exported at all."
"In addition to porcelain and tea gardens, the land in Zhejiang and Jiangnan has always been the main production area of mulberry and silkworm cultivation for our dynasty. In addition to having a large number of silk weaving workshops, the Guilin County Prince also controlled the entire Jiangnan The silk industry. The prince of Guilin has been monopolizing trade rights for more than a hundred years. Who among the silk weavers in the world dare not to look at their faces?"
"The annual tax paid by the Guilin County Prince's Mansion is equivalent to 35% of the imperial court's income. It can be said that if the Guilin County Prince's Mansion sneezes, the court will catch a cold. If the Guilin County Prince's Mansion catches a cold, the court may be suffering from an incurable disease. Especially At the moment, the imperial court's annual income is decreasing day by day, and the annual taxes of the Guilin County Prince's Palace are particularly important. It can be said that the imperial court cannot survive without them."
"Yong has marked all the properties of the Guilin County Prince's Mansion that Yong knows about on this map. However, this is what Yong knows and understands a little bit. Yong has been working in Fujian Road before, so he has no idea about the Guilin County Prince's Mansion in Fujian. , Guangnan East Road, the business situation is somewhat understood, but I only have a general understanding of its situation on Jiangnan East West Road, Zhejiang and Lianghu."
After listening to Jian Yong's introduction, Huang Qiong turned the rosary in his hand and pondered for a long time before saying: "When did your father give you the imperial edict? In addition to telling you to tell these things to me, what else is there in the imperial edict?" Request. Also, according to your statement, Guilin County Prince’s Mansion is not only the richest in the world, but also the richest in the world."
"It is difficult for ordinary people to master these things unless they have deliberately understood them. It can even be said that you will not be able to collect so many things without anyone's support. I don't think that the documents in the Ministry of Household are from the fourth grade. My colleagues are free to look at it. It’s just a fish scale book, but even I, as a prince, have no right to look at it.”
Regarding the question raised by Huang Qiong, Jian Yong answered without hesitation: "Back to the prince, what Yong received was a secret decree. It was on the same day that the Daquan map was sent. Along with the secret decree, there was also a secret decree from the Ministry of Household Affairs. Those things. The reason why Yong was delayed for a few days was because he had to read the documents sent from the Ministry of Household Affairs, so he was delayed for a while. "
"Yong Chang worked in Fujian Road for many years, and also worked in the Department of Transportation in charge of wealth. In addition, during his tenure in Fujian, because the place where he worked was the tea garden of Guilin County Prince's Mansion, Yong also deliberately learned some about the industries of Guilin County Prince's Mansion. The situation. It was precisely because of some understanding that I discovered that the Guilin County Prince's Palace has formed control over the entire Jiangnan merchants and even industries. "
"Yong was worried that in the long run, it would do great harm to Daqi. Therefore, when Yong was in Fujian Road, he once wrote a secret to the emperor specifically for the Guilin County Prince's Palace. Although Yong was just an ordinary civil servant, he had the authority of the emperor. Mi Zhequan. But not long after that Mi Zhe was established, for some unknown reason, Yong was transferred to Zhengzhou as Tongzhi."
"However, the emperor didn't say much in the secret decree. He just asked Yong to tell the prince what he knew. As for more, the emperor didn't say anything. Although Yong said he didn't know the reason for doing this, But Yong thought that the emperor also realized what Yong was worried about, and he might have to deal with the Guilin County Prince's Palace."
Looking at the candid Jian Yong, Huang Qiong understood something. This Jian Tongzhi was transferred from Fujian to Zhengzhou, probably because of his own tricks. If he goes by what he said, the Guilin County Prince's Palace is really so powerful on Guangnan East-West Road and Fujian Road. If he goes to secretly investigate people from a prefecture, can he really hide it?
My own emperor, I, transferred him to Zhengzhou. I am afraid that his first purpose was to protect him. If he was still working at Fujian Road, he would probably have no head left by now. Is that rich man in this world really clean under his butt? And that rich man is really not afraid of investigation? What's more, the Guilin County Prince's Mansion is almost the richest man in the world?
With their power, if they could quietly kill a fifth-grade magistrate, they probably wouldn't even be able to make a splash. It was precisely because of this that the emperor transferred this bold magistrate to the interior. It's just that my own emperor didn't expect that this guy was not just unlucky. Only three months after taking office, he was once again involved in such a rebellion.
The head that the emperor had tried so hard to save almost escaped death at the hands of his own son. If he hadn't been the one to quell the rebellion this time, just because this guy took over as the puppet magistrate of Zhengzhou at the last moment, it would be the lightest thing to dismiss him from office to serve the people. Regardless of those officials who are truly rebellious, they may not lose their heads after the rebellion subsides.
But as the man who acted as the magistrate of Zhengzhou and saved the people of Zhengzhou, I am afraid that his head may not be saved. Whether others are submissive or coerced, after all, they have not yet truly openly participated in the rebellion. He took over as the magistrate of Zhengzhou appointed by King Jing. Although there was a reason for the incident, he could become the scapegoat for those truly rebellious officials. There is no one more suitable than him to take the blame.
This guy should be lucky that he came to counter the rebellion by himself this time. If the second person came, I'm afraid his head would have moved long ago. As for the second purpose, I am afraid that the emperor is determined to deal with the Guilin County Prince's Palace, and it will probably take more than a day or two. How can one allow others to snore on the side of the couch? This is a common problem among emperors throughout the ages, and my own emperor may not be immune to this.
